Example sentences of "[pers pn] is at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pithy violence of Shostakovich 's First Sonata does not come naturally to her , but she is at home in the limpid impressionism of Rachmaninov 's G major Prelude , which on its own makes this disc worth having . |
| 2 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 3 | If a husband wishes to set up his own business , his wife should think through the implications of having her husband at home all day , if she is at home too . |
| 4 | She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again . |
| 5 | A view of Sugar 's cockpit as she is at Hendon today . |
| 6 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 7 | And , though I believe she is at heart a sensible girl , she might be driven to do something silly . |
| 8 | She is at present Officer for English at the National Language Unit of Wales . |
| 9 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 10 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
| 11 | Although the school holidays are difficult , her husband does shift work and could arrange his shifts to cover most of the time she is at work . |
| 12 | no , if Maureen 's the same at , at home as she is at work then you can see why she left home |
| 13 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 14 | And the world will say : now she is at liberty to pursue her inclination , the parson is the man . |
| 15 | She is at play school and she will go to full school in January . |
| 16 | But presented with the royal ultimatum to spend the festive season in the bosom of a family with which she is at war , Diana made her heartbreak decision . |
| 17 | She is at Jacks Hill Service Station . ’ |
| 18 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 19 | Finally Tess 's mother replied in a low voice , ‘ She is at Sandbourne . ’ |
| 20 | That relaxed , even jokey , presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic . |
| 21 | Whatever the case — and the religious context is a problem that will be considered with wider reference in due course — it is at church that the parish clerk , Absolon , is introduced . |
| 22 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) How should you study the family when it is at home ? |
| 24 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |
| 25 | What they all tell you is that doing business and controlling credit overseas is much the same as it is at home except that it is more complicated and expensive . |
| 26 | After all , nothing is a joke here , as it is at home with Felicity . |
| 27 | British television is almost as widely admired abroad as it is at home . |
| 28 | ‘ Right now it is at Pentagon level . |
| 29 | Even when it is at rest , silent and apparently non-polluting , the car continues to have environmental impacts . |
| 30 | The interval I between ticks emitted by the source when it is at rest at height r is given by . |